Purpose: To investigate the effects of the self-built raft courses on college students' Life-Effectiveness. Methods: Quasi-experimental as well as the pretest-posttest nonequivalent groups design were used. The participants were college students divided into two groups: experimental group with participating in self-built raft courses (n=54) while control group without (n=72). The Life-Effectiveness scale (including 6 subscales such as time management, emotional control, achievement motivation, social leadership, self confidence and active initiative) was took to pretest and posttest the effects. Data analysis was conducted by SPSS 17.0 for Windows by the methods of descriptive statistics, paired t-test and One-way ANCOVA. Results: The experimental group received more significant and positive improvement on Life-Effectiveness, including, time management, emotional control, achievement motivation, social leadership, self confidence and active initiative than the control group. Conclusions: The researchers constructed one series of self-built raft courses with integration of adventure-based learning process model through the elements of movie-watching and practical experiences that could promote Life-effectiveness.